Cries Of ‘Injustice’ As Occupy Wall Street Organizer Sentenced To Prison

Cecily McMillan: ‘I stand resolved to keep fighting because your love ethic props me up and allows me to do so’.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

Cecily McMillan, the Occupy Wall Street organizer convicted of felony assault of the police officer she says sexually assaulted her, was sentenced Monday to three months in prison, five years of probation and community service. In a case that has shined a spotlight on what critics charge are systemic failures in the U.S. justice system, the

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Remorseful Jurors Plea To Judge: No Prison Time For OWS Activist

Jurors express shock and regret upon learning guilty verdict could land Cecily McMillan in prison for 7 years.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
Cecily McMillan

A majority of the jury that found Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan guilty of "felony assault" of the very police officer who she says sexually assaulted and brutalized her appears to be remorseful that the 25-year-old could spend up to seven years behind bars. Nine of the 12 people who served on the jury have penned a letter to Judge

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OWS Activist Found Guilty Of ‘Assaulting’ Cop Who Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Her

Cecily McMillan, who faces up to seven years in prison, was immediately handcuffed and ‘whisked away.’

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

Cecily McMillan—the 25-year-old Occupy Wall Street organizer who was allegedly sexually assaulted and brutalized by a police officer at Zuccotti Park, is facing up to seven years in prison after—in what her supporters say is a cruel twist—she was convicted Monday afternoon of "felony assault" of the very police officer she says is her

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Occupy Wall Street Protester On Trial Over “Assaulting” A Police Officer

“The main issue here is the heavy-handed, over-policing by the NYPD during the Occupy Wall Street protests”

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Cecily McMillan’s trial for assaulting a police officer started Monday at the Manhattan Criminal Court. McMillian, the Northeast regional organizer for Young Democratic Socialist for America and a graduate student at the New School for Social Research, was beaten after a male police officer grabbed at her right breast during the arrests, leaving a

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